January 21, 2010
Cross posted from NAS.org From time to time we cite without comment various items from articles, books, websites, and other sources. We don't comment on these items (at least in w......
January 21, 2010
A 1962 newspaper clipping recaps the message of a campus speaker who asked, "What is the university's fundamental social obligation?"
January 20, 2010
NBC: Yale President Responds to T-Shirt Controversy "I think of all Harvard men as sissies" from F. Scott Fitzgerald's book This Side of Paradise (which I'm currently reading) was deemed off......
January 20, 2010
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I review the new book by Rutgers sociology professor Jackson Toby, The Lowering of Higher Education in America. Toby makes much the same case I have -- w......
January 20, 2010
NAS's Glenn Ricketts traces the history of the sustainability movement, now dominant as a campus ideology, in a major article that will appear in a forthcoming sustainability-themed issue of our......
January 20, 2010
Having just returned from a Foresight Institute conference on “The Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI,” I am struck by the educational implications of what I heard about transfor......
January 20, 2010
A new study concludes that a stereotype keeps conservatives from becoming professors.
January 19, 2010
I was pleased to read this posting in The Lawyerist, entitled Teaching Makes You a Better Lawyer. This is so true, in my opinion, but it's self-serving when coming from the academy. ......
January 19, 2010
In yesterday's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin takes a look at programs in the UNC system that aim at taking the weakest of the incoming students and giving them remedial work in basic math and E......
January 18, 2010
Our friend Christina Hoff Sommers, long a thorn in the side of academic feminism and Women's Studies, is no doubt going to anger them again with her recent posting about the absence of women in......
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
January 27, 2026
As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
